Japanese e-paper announced for 10 zillionth time!
Oh, it’s that old crappy e-paper yet again! The 3Yen has been reporting this “soon to be released” product for years now but it never goes mainstream. Meh.
AFP/Getty Images. 16 May 2005 Tokyo, JAPAN: Japanese computer giant Fujitsu…displays a prototype model of an “electronic paper” display consisting in a 7.8-inch VGA 512-color LCD capable of displaying an image continously without electric power…more…
(Note: The blurring on the middle left of the Japanese picture on the e-paper is a Getty Images watermark not a display problem of the e-paper.)
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June 6th, 2007 at 10:16 pm
Swedes unfurl talking paper
--Coming soon: the interactive Playboy centrefold?–
The Register / Wednesday 6th June 2007 11:39 GMT
A team from Mid Sweden University have knocked together a “talking paper” billboard which uses conductive links and printed speakers to give forth when caressed, the BBC reports.
The chattering display - showing the tech’s “possible use for marketing holiday destinations” - uses a layer of “digital paper” printed with said links. Hit the link, and a computer responds by offering up the appropriate sound file via speakers “formed from more layers of conductive inks that sit over an empty cavity to form a diaphragm”.…more...
September 12th, 2007 at 10:08 am
Q: So when can I buy it?
A: Is it always going to be “In-the-Five-Years” …meh.
By 2012 I expect to have, this , solar cells with efficiency above 90% for pennies per watt, flying cars, super thin televisions the size of my wall, fuel cell automobiles, batteries replaced by power cells that store more power, cost less, are infinitely rechargeable, and mega-whoopie capacitors.
Also the Mayan calendar will have expired, and the North and South Poles will have melted, so I don’t know how useful this all will be to me.